Word: performing
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...people making music, but they're not making it now. We forget that symphony orchestras can't be put in jewel cases. When you perform for people, you can get a sense of how you're doing. If you're doing we'll and people are enjoying it, you do better. You rise to the occasion and things come out that you didn't know you had in you. Other days, nothing goes right and you go through the motions. Music is not just what I do; it's an interaction among people...
...debate over whether graduate students should have the right to unionize hinged upon the nature of their work. The NYU administration maintained that the work performed by graduate students serves as an integral part of their education, and therefore exempts them from full worker-status, including the right to unionize. But these arguments fail to take into account the large amounts of menial work graduate students perform, often in departments completely unrelated to their field. Shouldering clerical duties for a professor does not enhance the edification of graduate students--if anything, the work detracts from their studies. These extra tasks...
...community. One would hopefully feel less apprehensive about leaving personal items on desks in the library. Enacting an honor system could also solve the hassle and degradation of opening up one's backpack upon leaving a library. Perhaps Harvard could even consider unproctored examinations which would aid those who perform better in a comfortable setting without hearing everyone else furiously writing and some stranger calling out the time every five minutes...
...those serious about bringing a championship to Boston, the window of opportunity for this team is closing fast. Pedro Martinez cannot be expected to continue to perform at his present peak level forever, and too many people take for granted that Nomar Garciaparra will be in Boston for his entire career. If the Red Sox cannot pull off a World Series title now--when they have arguably the best hitter in baseball and unquestionably the best pitcher--God help us, because we will never...
Boies is used to cramming. He has struggled with dyslexia since childhood, and memorizes every detail to avoid having to read anything twice. A few days before Thanksgiving 1986, he was recruited to perform one of his most dramatic saves: appealing a jury verdict that assessed Texaco $10.6 billion for busting up the acquisition of Getty by Pennzoil. At the time, he had been tending to his dying mother in Fullerton, Calif. By Dec. 3, he had mastered 30,000 pages of the original trial transcript, and for the duration of the appeal he split his time between federal court...